Day 50: Law of the Jungle
Obsidian eyes glare at me. They are framed by red and yellow circles which sweep over the men’s cheeks. Headdresses catch the sunlight, their colours testament to the demise of…
Obsidian eyes glare at me. They are framed by red and yellow circles which sweep over the men’s cheeks. Headdresses catch the sunlight, their colours testament to the demise of…
The gunshot rang out, echoing across the rainforest’s canopy. Streaks of colour exploded across the early evening sky as parrots, and other birds darted away. A chorus of hoots and…
The plane crash was nothing like I had expected. There was no Hollywood-style explosion, no mushroom cloud of flame, no thunderous boom of igniting fuel tanks. Yet there was something…
The explosion of dust and dirt dies down. “We’re through!” somebody calls out. I stand back, surrounded by equally dirt-smeared and dishevelled colleagues, as the final mini landslide of debris…
I am frozen in a moment. Seized by dread. I hold my breath. I will my very heartbeat to cease and relieve the deafening pounding in my head. I strain…
The darkness is suffocating. Thick. Oozing. Like a living entity clamping down around me, squeezing the air from my lungs. It is everywhere - to the left, to the right.…
The sweltering heat drops to an odd, unexpected chill. The relentless sun fades into shadow. The craziness of basecamp slows to an eerie stillness, broken only by wisps of mist…
An endless ocean of green stretches before me, broken only by the snaking meanders of the Orinoco’s tributaries, including the so-called Blood River, which emanates from the ground beneath my…
The Huey swings low over the treetops, its downdraft blasting at the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. Sprawling for thousands of miles in all directions is an endless ocean of…
Red mist plumes above the frothing cauldron as gallons of blood spew over the cliffs. The churning morass at the base of the cascade is littered with jagged rocks, each…